https://lwn.net/Articles/436012/?format=printable
Lennart Poettering is planning to introduce a new toplevel directory, /run, moving /var/run to it, and /var/lock to /run/lock His reasons mostly seem sensible; as /var/run may not be available early in the boot process, people have been doing ghastly things like keeping state in /dev The issue is whether anything needed for boot really ought to be writing state anywhere; I can't think of a good reason for this, but maybe I'm just ignorant. But to me /var/run & /var/lock never sat well anyway, so it seems like less of a bad idea than I had expected from Lennart. Am I wrong? Lots of the people around here understand Unix quite deeply... Does Plan9 split parts of /var off like this? Nick
